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...Cambridge Election Commission decided recently that the students in Leverett Towers and the MIT dormitories have been voting in the wrong precincts and should be moved to the fourth precinct of the sixth ward...
...business suits for bright blazers and white loafers. He has run into some flak from Common Cause for his acceptance of $10,000 in contributions from the A.M.A., twice the amount allowed one contributor by law. He claims it was legal. However, with a $500,000 budget, thousands of precinct workers, and an aura of the Eagle Scout (he actually was one), Lugar looks like a winner over Hartke...
...ensure that advantage, jobs and other benefits are not given out piecemeal, but are used as "organizational cement." According to Johnny and Peter, who is also an 11th ward precinct captain, each ward is given a certain number of city and county (and state, when it is under regular Democratic control) jobs to hand out as it pleases. Tommy Donovan, the mayor's administrative assistant, is in charge of patronage for the city. He knows which jobs are open and who controls them. Since different positions carry different salaries and prestige, Donovan makes sure that the actual job distribution matches...
...Johnny is a planner level two, a job he got through the 11th ward, and he wants a promotion to a recently vacated planner-three position. To obtain it he has to go through his ward committeeman, Richie Daley, the mayor's son. If Johnny has been delivering his precinct, Richie will bargain with whomever "owns" the planning job, and he may be forced to trade a plumbing inspectorship...
...workers must donate a certain portion of their salary (usually about 4 per cent) to their local ward office. This duty is often fulfilled by attending functions like $500-a-plate fundraising dinners. All patronage workers also face the possibility that the machine will be turned out of office. Precinct captain Peter lost his cozy $25,000 state job when independent Daniel Walker was elected governor in 1972 and fired hundreds of Daley people in a futile attempt to build his own political machine to rival Daley...